• The song "She's Like The Wind" was co-written by 'Patrick Swayze ' with Stacy Widelitz and sung by Patrick Swayze.
  
  
• The song "She's Like The Wind", originally written for Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), was later used in this movie instead.
  
  
• Voted #2 Must See Movie of all time by listeners of Capital FM in London.
  

• Cynthia Rhodes (Penny Johnson) was the first to be cast.
  
  
• Throughout the film, Johnny and Baby always wear contrasting colors, Baby in very light colors, and Johnny in black or something very dark.
  
  
• The film was re-released in 1997 solely due to a petition led by late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien in which he asked viewers to send letters calling for the film's re-release. When exhibitors finally agreed, O'Brien joked that he actually didn't like the movie all that much.
  
  
• The film was set in the summer, yet the lake scene where they were practicing the lift was filmed in October. Since the leaves were already turning, they had to paint the leaves in the background. If you look closely you can see where they missed a few in one spot.
  
  
• 'Jennifer Grey' , at 27, was 10 years older than the character of Baby. During her audition, she had 5 minutes to prove she could play younger, and that she had the moves for the role.
  
  
• The dancing that Patrick Swayze and 'Jennifer Grey' do during the love scene was actually the same dance that they did for the screen tests. It was never originally supposed to be in the film.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Emile Ardolino] At the séance right before Johnny goes in to the kitchen to get Penny.
  
  
• In the scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing dancing, and she keeps laughing when he runs his arm down hers, it was not part of the scene, she was actually laughing and his frustration was genuine. They left it because it was effective. Her falling over in this scene was unplanned too.
  
  
• The very famous scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing their dancing and they are crawling towards each other on the floor wasn't intended to be part of the film; they were just messing around and were warming up to do the real scene, but the director liked it so much he kept in the film.
  
  
• Although they barely dance during the movie, Jerry Orbach and Kelly Bishop (Baby's parents) were both well-known as Broadway singers and dancers. In fact, their most famous Broadway musicals - "A Chorus Line" for Bishop and "Chicago" for Orbach - had engaged in a famous rivalry for box office and awards when they opened within months of each other in 1975.
  
  
• The lake practice scene was filmed at Lake Lure in the mountains of North Carolina in October. There are no close-ups because the actors were so cold that their lips were blue.
  
  
• Val Kilmer was initially offered the headlining role but declined.
  
  
• Billy Zane was considered for the lead role, but he didn't dance well.
  
  
• The movie's line "Nobody puts Baby in the corner." was voted as the #98 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
  
  
• Baby tells Johnny that her real name is "Frances, after the first woman in the cabinet." Frances C. Perkins was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1947. She was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first term, and served throughout all four of his terms and two years into Truman's presidency.